Blackout Periods Add/Edit Page

Administration > Projects > Blackout Periods

Use this page to configure script-execution blackout periods for Monitoring Console.

Note: The execution log records an entry each time a blackout period is activated, for both entire projects and individual locations.

For each listed blackout period, the details page displays the following information:

Column	Description
Blackout Period Name	Name defined for the blackout period. For example, `Two-Hour Duration Test, One-Day Interval`.
Time Type	For the dates given in the schedule of the blackout period, two different time type options are available: One global time (all associated projects are disabled simultaneously) The global time type setting indicates that all associated projects are disabled at exactly the time indicated as the Start Time, based on your local time zone, on all locations simultaneously. Location local time (each of the associated project's locations is disabled according to the location's local time) Indicates that associated project locations will be disabled based on their local time-zone settings. The active intervals for a single blackout period may differ from location to location. This setting assumes that all execution servers for a single location are located in the same time zone.
Start Time	Time at which the blackout period is to become active.
Duration	Length of time that projects are to be disabled while a blackout is active.
Interval	Interval at which the blackout periods should reoccur. The amount of time that is to transpire between blackouts. Active intervals for blackout periods exclude the start time, but include the end time. Note: Blackout periods cannot overlap. Monitoring Console will not allow you to define overlapping blackout periods.
Scheduled Until	Time at which the blackout period is to end. If the specified Duration would call for a blackout to remain active once the Scheduled Until time is reached, all associated projects remain disabled until the Duration has ended.
Blackout Type	Determines how associated projects are disabled. There are two types of disablement: Remove monitors from execution servers The monitors of the associated projects are removed from the execution servers, and therefore do not deliver any results or trigger any incidents. Monitors are distributed again once the blackout period is over. Run monitors, but do not report errors The monitors of the associated projects continue to run, their results are still recorded and affect health, availability, accuracy and performance values as usual, but rules and conditions are not evaluated, so no Incidents are raised. Evaluation resumes once the blackout period is over.
Projects	Name Lists all projects that are available in the system. Assigned Check to assign a blackout to a project.